Updating yesterday's story on the Israeli government's ban on journalists in or even near the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Supreme Court has said that it is "inclined" to allow a handful of journalists into the warzone to provide coverage. It has asked the Foreign Press...

Speaking earlier today on the growing death toll in the Gaza Strip, United Nations Relief and Works Agency spokesman Christopher Gunness said that "a minimum of 25 percent of all those killed are civilians," adding that "it may well be far higher." At present count,...

As pro-war rallies continue across Israel, the Israeli government has announced that it will reject the 48-hour ceasefire proposed yesterday to allow humanitarian aid to be delivered to the Gaza Strip. Labeling the truce as 'unrealistic', the attacks on the strip will...

Updated 12/31 6:55 PM EST As the aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip moves into its fifth day, the death toll has now crossed the 400 mark. The number is doubtless to rise further as an unknown number remain buried under the rubble in the densely populated strip....

Israeli Arabs may constitute more than 20 percent of the nation's population, but as the majority loudly cheers on the military's attacks on the Gaza Strip the largely antiwar Arabs are finding themselves a disenfranchised and increasingly distrusted minority. Its...

Across the world, mainstream journalists are expressing increasing disquiet at the way the Israeli government is trying to manage international coverage of its war on the Gaza Strip. Journalists have been barred not just from the strip itself, but the government is...

An Israeli soldier was killed in a mortar strike on a military base in western Negev today, and a civilian was killed in a strike on the city of Ashdod. A handful of others were also wounded in the attacks from the Gaza Strip. The toll in three days of fire from the...